Sunday, March 04, 2018

New series of Arabic biblical and apocryphal texts

GORGIAS PRESS: BIBLICAL AND APOCRYPHAL CHRISTIAN ARABIC TEXTS SERIES.
Gorgias Press is delighted to launch its latest series: Biblical and Apocryphal Christian Arabic Texts (BACA). The series brings to the scholarly world reliable editions of unpublished texts based on a single manuscript. The series will prooduce edited volumes on Biblical and Apocryphal literature of the various Christian-Arabic ecclesiastical traditions, preceded by substantial introductory studies covering the socio-historical, theological, literary and linguistic aspects connected to the texts. Ultimately, this series seeks to present a varied and comprehensive map of texts that represent the rich and vast field of biblical and apocryphal literature in one of the Christian languages, Arabic.
This looks like a promising series. The forthcoming biblical volumes include the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Isaiah. Old Testament pseudepigrapha include the History of Adam and Eve and the History of Joseph, son of Jacob.

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